Judy Gold: Challah, stuffed cabbage, chocolate pudding
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Judy Gold's email signature reads "Sent while thinking about my next meal"...but what about her last meal?! A stand-up comic for nearly 40 years, Judy won two Emmy's for writing and producing The Rosie O'Donnell Show, has countless TV acting credits and, the highest honor of all, a bagel sandwich named after her at New York City's famous, and now defunct, Carnegie Deli.
When describing her last meal, Judy speaks passionately, occasionally emitting a guttural moan of pleasure at the mere thought of one of her favorite foods. She craves a procession of comforting and sentimental dishes she grew up eating in her mother's New Jersey kitchen. Judy was raised kosher, but as an adult she's slowly welcomed forbidden foods like shellfish and bacon onto her plate.
To properly explain kosher law, host Rachel Belle welcomes Rabbi Menachen Genack to the show. He's the CEO of OU Kosher, the world's oldest and largest kosher certification agency, responsible for giving products like Heinz Ketchup and Coca Cola the official kosher stamp of approval.
Listen to Judy Gold's podcast KILL ME NOW -- Rachel Belle is her latest guest!
If you're looking for yet another reason to cook during quarantine, join the Your Last Meal Quarantine Cooking Club on Rachel's Instagram page! Each week we all cook a dish inspired by the last meal of a past guest. Week One we made spaghetti and marinara inspired by fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, week two was mac & cheese, the last meal of "Little Women" director Greta Gerwig & celebrity librarian Nancy Pearl. What's cooking this week? Follow along on Instagram!
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| 0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
| 0:05.6 | Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. |
| 0:11.6 | Cairo, Seattle. I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most. |
| 0:31.8 | Today on the program, comedian Judy Gold. Judy has been a stand-up comedian for nearly 40 years. |
| 0:38.9 | She hosts a podcast called Kill Me Now. |
| 0:41.4 | I am the latest guest on it. |
| 0:43.2 | This is what we'd call a pod swap. |
| 0:45.4 | Ooh. |
| 0:46.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:46.6 | And she made a pretty funny little joke because she's a comedian when we were setting up because |
| 0:50.4 | this was on my day off. |
| 0:51.8 | And so I was recording in my closet because my neighbors were doing |
| 0:55.2 | construction. And I said, Judy, I'm recording in the closet. She said, Rachel, I was in the closet for years. |
| 1:02.0 | You'll be fine. Okay. So going back to Judy's list of accomplishments here, she won two Emmys for |
| 1:08.4 | writing and producing the Rosie O'Donnell show. She has written and starred in two critically acclaimed off-Broadway hit shows. |
| 1:14.1 | She has even competed on Chopped on the Food Network. |
| 1:17.8 | And like any normal person, Judy loves food. |
| 1:21.1 | But she grew up kosher, so there were all kinds of things that she didn't try until she was a full-fledged adult. |
| 1:26.7 | She only recently tried |
| 1:28.2 | pork because she kind of got tricked into it on a TV show. So I ate it and God, it was |
| 1:34.6 | delicious. Was that the first time you'd ever had roasted pork? Yet. So if you're kosher, |
| 1:40.3 | pork is out, shellfish is forbidden. But what does it really mean to be kosher? Why do Jews |
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